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Show ' SYRACUSE CREW HAS SCRAPPERS I I H - 1 v' i '-j L f Z 4 n . v. j. ' x v ? , x s i n v , 1 ' t , Jim Ten L'yck, rowmg coach o. .Syracuse university, picks men for his crews for three things legs, grit and wind. In spring be lines up bis rowing candidates on the beautiful hill back of the university end tells them to follow him. He starts off in a lope over smooth roads. The pack follows, thinking the jaunt is to be soft pickings. Ten Eyck at the head of the string suddenly swerves into a new direction. Sometimes he jumps a fence into a plowed field. He keeps up the same pace. The smile begins to come off the faces of the men heeling him. He swings up a steep hill at a walk that is almost a trot. For more thau an hour he roams the hills. The stragglers usually "walk the plank." He has weeded out the men who haven't legs, grit and wind. This year Al Loskamp was selected as the stroke oar for tiie varsity eight. He is the type of athlete that Ten Eyck selects for his crews. "There's no mystery or secret to selecting great oarsmen," says Ten Eyck. "Here at Syracuse we pick the lighters. That's wdiy we csually win." |